Summary

Derek didn't do field work. He refused. God knew the last time he left the office, it didn't go so well. He's perfectly content to just sit in his lab, help out from afar, and keep to himself.

If the kid who kept breaking all the rules would stop confusing him, things might have been OK. You know, with the kid he's turned who he can't stop worrying about, the damaged splinters of family he has left, and the Uncle he doesn't trust looming over Stiles' shoulder.

Summary

It's these little moments where he thinks they might be real friends, where he thinks this is normality he can grip onto and keep. He likes teaching them, likes watching them learn from him. And he's come to expect their noise of an afternoon, stretching well into the evening. On nights when they decide to stay, he listens to their heartbeats sync up all on their own, waiting until they've fallen into sleep until he does himself.

Summary

'He stays quiet, because if he speaks, he'll try to tell Stiles to leave, and the words will only get caught in his throat, and come out mangled and ineffective, and he will look pathetic. So he doesn't speak. He trails his fingers through Stiles' hair, and tries not to hate himself too much for not sending him away. At his core, he's a selfish being, and he needs Stiles more than he thinks he needs anything. He should give him up. He won't.'

Summary

There are two constants in Derek’s life; Laura and Stiles. When one begins to flicker and bleed, he thinks maybe he’s going slowly insane. He doesn’t mind so much.

""I miss you." Not the words he’d meant, and yet they’re the words that come. And he does. He misses Laura more than he misses anyone he’s ever lost. It feels like a betrayal to admit that, because he misses his whole family, but Laura is the one who saved him. Who looked after him, and Laura is and always will be his Alpha."

Summary

Stiles gets a call for help from his old babysitter, Laura Hale, after a slew of magical sabotage to the restaurant/gastropub she runs with her brother Derek. Mysterious magical and supernatural shenanigans are Stiles' bread and butter, so who is he to deny what's basically family?

Even if it does mean facing his age-old, hopeless crush on Derek again, and the fact that Derek hates him.

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"Watching Stiles heal someone has always been a little uncomfortable for Derek, like he's seeing something intimate and private that shouldn't have an audience. That's nothing compared to how it feels." This is an AU in which Stiles has magical healing powers.